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    / 10.860056; -14.424056 The Wassoulou Empire, also referred to as the Ouassalou Empire, Mandinka Empire, Samory's Empire or the Samorian State, was a...
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    Mandinka Muslim cleric, military strategist, and founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic empire that was stretched across present-day north and eastern Guinea...
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    Segou Empire in the 18th and early 19th centuries, but still suffered regular slave raids. Wassoulou is also the name of an Islamic state, the Wassoulou Empire...
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    Traoré, former prime minister of Guinea Samori Ture, founder of the Wassoulou Empire, an Islamic military state that resisted French rule in West Africa...
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  • written constitution and alternate rulers. The Wassoulou empire was a short-lived (1878–1898) empire, led by Samory Touré in the predominantly Malinké...
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  • and increasing pressure from the French. The Wassoulou or Wassulu Empire was a short-lived (1878–1898) empire, led by Samori Ture in the predominantly Malinké...
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    period and afterwards, though with reduced power. Wassoulou Empire (1878–1898), a short-lived empire built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Ture...
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  • This is a navigational list of empires. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References External links List of former...
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  • Sofa (warrior) (category Mali Empire)
    the Mali Empire. Sofas would also fight, in varying capacities, in the armies of later Mandé states such as the Bamana and Wassoulou empires. The word...
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  • Mandingo Wars (category Resistance to the French colonial empire)
    were a series of conflicts from 1882 to 1898 between France and the Wassoulou Empire of the Mandingo people led by Samori Ture. Comparatively, the French...
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    Segou, in present-day Mali. Though not strictly a jihadist state, the Wassoulou Empire, founded by Samori Ture, was a significant Islamic state during this...
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  • Niger-Congo language family Mandinka people of West Africa Wassoulou Empire, also known as the Mandinka Empire Madinkhaya, an eastern variant of the Syriac alphabet...
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    Bonoman, Sijilmassa, and other Saharan cities. It became part of the Mali Empire early in the 14th century. By this time it had become a major centre of...
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  • Flag Date Use Description 1878–1898 Flag of The Wassoulou Empire A horizontal tricolor of blue, cyan and white with a red triangle based on the hoist side...
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  • [citation needed]. In the 1870s Bate agreed to join Samori Ture's Wassoulou Empire. When Bate refused to help him subjugate another Muslim state, however...
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    1895 the city of Kong was sacked and conquered by Samori Ture of the Wassoulou Empire. The Abron kingdom of Gyaaman was established in the 17th century by...
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    Carabina de Artilharia 8 mm m/1886/91: 8 mm Artillery Carbine. The Wassoulou Empire arms industry created functional copies of the Krophatschek rifle in...
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    needed] It was also among the rifles copied in the arms industry of the Wassoulou Empire in the 1880s and 90s. According to the Vietnamese historian Phạm Văn...
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    attacks from Samori Ture as a front in the Mandingo Wars between the Wassoulou Empire and the French. In 1897, Samori defeated the last forces of Kong and...
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  • empires and kingdoms sprang out from the Senegambia region, including but not limited to the great Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire,...
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    a Dyula warlord who named the city in 1878 as the capital of his Wassoulou Empire (1861-1890). He was known for his resistance to French colonial forces...
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    West Africa (section Empires)
    kingdom after kingdom. With the fall of Samory Ture's established Wassoulou Empire in 1898 and the Ashanti queen Yaa Asantewaa in 1902, most West African...
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    died in 1917. From 1882 until his capture, Samori Ture, ruler of the Wassoulou Empire, fought the French colonial army, defeating them on several occasions...
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  • Faama (category Mali Empire)
    was later used by the Bamana Empire and the Wassoulou Empire of Samori Toure and non-Mandinka groups in the Kenedougou Empire. Both faama and mansa are word...
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    c. 970 — c. 1240 Decline of the Ghana Empire c. 1,075 Almoravid conquest of the Ghana Empire c. 1100 — c. 1235 Aftermath and Sosso Occupation c. 1217 —...
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    The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire centred in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe...
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    flag of the Massina Empire (1818–1862), located in the present-day regions of Mopti and Ségou Historical flag of the Wassoulou Empire (1878–1898), located...
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    The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian...
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    Ture (Samory Touré), a noted Muslim Mandinka king who founded the Wassoulou Empire (1861–1890) in the territory of Guinea and Mali, defeating numerous...
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    Ashanti Empire. In the early 1890s Samory Touré, faama of the expanding Wassoulou Empire, set his sights on conquering Kong. The French, by that point the dominant...
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